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HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA — After a winter filled with relentless systems, attention is now turning to a spring-like severe weather setup that could bring strong to severe thunderstorms to central and especially eastern Pennsylvania Monday afternoon and evening. Forecast guidance highlights a corridor of enhanced...

Todd Willever was diagnosed in 2022 with a devastating brain cancer that doctors estimated would give him 10 to 15 months to live. The longtime Trenton firefighter battled it for 46 months before succumbing early Monday. He was 55 years old. The cancer — glioblastoma multiforme or GBM — led...

Superior Court of Pennsylvania rejected Kahlill Saleem Brown’s claims that there was insufficient evidence to identify him as the shooter who killed Christopher M. Wilson. An appeals court has upheld the life sentence of a former Philadelphia man convicted in the 2020 ambush killing of a recycling facility worker.

A drive along Interstate 95 in Philadelphia is essentially a billboard tour of personal injury law firms, all using the city's most stereotypical catchphrases to corner the market on misfortune. About a year ago, Philadelphia Magazine's Tom McGrath counted 30 different billboards for personal injury lawyers along the...

Public urged to ignore fictitious text messages alleging failure to pay PA turnpike toll. The Philadelphia Courts recently issued a statewide fraud alert, warning consumers about a fictitious text messaging scam purporting to come from the Traffic Division of Philadelphia Municipal Court. The headline on the text...

The Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board has asked the courts to suspend a Philadelphia judge accused of beating two women in his home. He’s been arrested on assault and strangulation charges. The Philadelphia County District Attorney’s Office accused Michael Fanning, 61, of punching a woman, dragging her to the...

A Camden County man was sentenced to three years in prison for making false statements to his insurance company to obtain benefits after his home burned down. Richard Orlandini, 65, pleaded guilty to insurance fraud last December. The events that led to his case stretch back to Oct. 20, 2018, when his Cherry Hill...

A man collapsed and died, police said, shortly after falling from a motorcycle on Aramingo Avenue in Philly's Port Richmond neighborhood early Wednesday. According to police, the incident happened at about 5:53 a.m. when a 71-year-old man fell from his motorcycle while traveling southbound along the 3800 block of...

A bright fireball streaked across Pennsylvania and New Jersey skies overnight and was visible in 10 other states, according to the American Meteorological Society. There were 113 reports about a fireball seen over Pennsylvania, New Jersey and neighboring states including New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware...

NORRISTOWN — A Philadelphia man admitted he tried to hire someone to kill his former girlfriend, the mother of his child, while he was behind bars at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility awaiting trial on other charges. Zunir Ataa Wilson-Walker, 23, pleaded guilty in county court on Thursday to...